A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday halted the Trump administration’s plans to layoff thousands of federal employees in the wake of the government shutdown, ruling that the administration may not proceed with any new reductions-in-force (RIF) notices issued as a result of the shutdown. US District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District [...]

In courtrooms from Birmingham, Alabama, to Santa Maria, California, Thomas Mesereau has faced some of the highest stakes in American criminal law. Renowned for his landmark criminal defense of pop icon Michael Jackson and over two decades representing clients on death row in the Deep South, Mesereau speaks with JURIST’s Senior Editor for Long-Form Content, [...]

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern Thursday about violent protests that erupted in Cameroon following the announcement of the presidential election results. The OHCHR called on Cameroon’s security forces to refrain from using lethal force to quell demonstrations and urged them to abide by their obligations under international [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed alarm on Wednesday over Turkish government proposals to criminalize people within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, describing the development as “one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades.” According to the rights group, a leaked draft of the reform law reveals plans to amend the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a 2022 district court judgment in City of Huntington, West Virginia v. AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation et al, holding that West Virginia common law permits public nuisance claims based on “the conditions resulting from the over-distribution of opioids.” The case will now return to [...]

“Left out here and driven away from there” — this old Dari proverb describes a person who has been rejected from both sides, meaning they can neither stay in the first place nor be accepted in the second. For 20-year-old Yasna, a young Afghan woman, and hundreds of thousands of other Afghan people who fled [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called for the immediate and unconditional release of 10 Egyptian Nubian men who have been held by Saudi authorities for over five years, urging the country to uphold its commitment to political reforms. The organization emphasized that the ten individuals were detained solely for expressing their cultural heritage and [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called for the reversal of a Kyrgyzstan court ruling issued the previous day. The Oktyabrsky District Court ruled that publications by the investigative outlets Temirov Live and Kloop are extremist and should be banned.  This marks the first time Kyrgyzstan has declared news outlets to be extremists, with [...]

Twenty-six states sued the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts for the department’s suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the current government shutdown. The USDA sent a letter to the states on October 24, 2025, suspending the allotment of SNAP benefits [...]

The ruling party in the Republic of Georgia, Georgian Dream (GD), announced on Tuesday that it will file a lawsuit to ban three opposition parties for their alleged unconstitutionality. Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili stated that the suit will be directed against the United National Movement, the Coalition for Change and the Lelo Party. According to [...]